Where have all the children gone

The creeking silence of age,

Echoes through the streets,

Sounds like old wooden floors,

Under heavy feet...

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All of the children once running around.

Have either left,

or maybe...

They've just disssapeared...

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Where have all the children gone?

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Yesterday they were laughing,

Swinging on trees and branches,

Playing with butterflies,

That holds deceased souls,

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In wildest dreams of their smiling faces,

But reality erases traces.

The fear begins to grow,

As the mystery starts to show...

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Where have all the children gone?

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Gone are the days of carefree bliss,

Replaces by a world that's amiss.

Depths of nostalgia, we yearn,

For the simplicity we used to discern.

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Where have all the children gone?

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We hope they're just hiding,

We hope they are just playing a game,

But now they have not come home~

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Where have all the children gone?

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Authors notes:

Inspired from the dance "where did all the children go" from the tv series 'dance moms'.